Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1920, Page 13

STERN CONNECTICUT HITS HE BILLION MARK IN 1313 %&MMmthemmhnadendemwhlm the Bulle- 3 tin has been compiling the business record of each year in tiie two counties of Eastern Connecticut, New London and Windham Counties, the grand total of the manu- facturing, banking and jobbing business of those sections i has gone into the billions. {The record for 1918 seemed of astonishing magnitude when 5 it reached $975,244,353, a record year to that time, but this figure fades into the background before the sum total for 1919 of $1,184,498,679. >Wagu in the cotton and woolen mills which are the big busi-| ness producers of this territory, as well as wages in all other manufacturing lines, have been at a high scale all through the year, and the high price of manufactured New London County | A Summary of the Manufacturing Business of Showing the g Norwich Wages Value of Product ..$ 2,618,852 . 1,642,000 Wages Cotton mills . Woolen mills Paper and belting. Silk and velvet........ 891,007 Boilers and iron work.. 246,500 Metal goods, etc... . 52,500 Firearms, cutlery . Machinery, shipworl Other industries . 784,000 1,097,260 $ 8,504,260 " 4,495,000 $41,400,600 Total wages .. . Total value of manufactured product , London County for the Yetr 1919, Approximate Wage Total, and the Value of the Products Turned Out. Value of Product ~-Other Towns Wages Value of Product $ 3, 2,610,000 s i Showing the Approximate Wage Total, and the Value of Windham County Manufacturing For 1919 ’ A Summary of the Manufacturing Business of Windham County for the Year 1919, the Products Turned Out. Eastern Connecticut has much.to point fo i ofln vny o{lngh way improvement under the State in the past year, including one ‘terest and importance. This is the -transformation of the old New Haven Rfi'lmul Bridge overthe'l'hmestetbetweenMMnnndGr& ton from railroad to highway purpo.a,qahng it an im- porhnthnkmthehxgbmysystemofflumhmflxe southa-nherofroudsfromenttowed. lnthethreecounhequwLondon,Windhmdeofland, the total expenditures through the State Highway De- partment under the supervision of A. W. Bushell of Nor- wich, division engineer, have been $1,121,474.74, which exceeds the previous year by about $720,000. Of the 1919 éxpenditures, New London county had $894,- 306.02, Windham county $91,439.44, and Tolland product along with high wages has sent the’ figures| leaping up the industrial thermometer, carrying along with them the banking and jobbing transactions to new heights. ; Willimantic Putnam Other Towns Wages - Value of Product Wages Value of Product Wages Value of Product Cotton mills .... $ 1,533,316 $ 410,000 $ 3,110,000 $ 4,146,500 $34,168,000 Silk, silk throwing. 3,114,000 171,000 ,200,[00 .......... Woolen e S SRR R M R el 650,000 3,815,000 6,041,000 Iron, metal work. 237,087 B30I Teh S et S ek DG TR S e Bee s il e 3 G RR Other industries 2,666,680 9,733,000 504,000 3,900,000 567,000 2,134,000 Totals . Total wages . Total value of manufactured product. ..$ 3,752,823 $13,025,000 $11,036,323 $70,379,059 Mew London County contributed $864,370,841 to the grand |30 the wage accotint was about $60,000 | $2,666.650 into the pockets of Willi- ,much as we should like to have done; i A 4 2 while a miscellaneous classification imantic wotkers, an increase of $252,- | but we have tried our Lest to do ‘what total in 1919, where it had given $669,405,812 in 1918, of about 30 other industrial plants 080 over the year before, and the | ousht to have been done, as it appear~ A 5 5, 3 where dbout 1,71 workers are em- {product value was $9,733,000. ed to us, although we are coascious Windham County’s business total in 1919 was $320,-| pioved ss]hg;;sgsthat they paid_out in i [um we have not succeeded in every ¥ = wages 0 where their wage ac- instauge 127,838 as against $305,839,541 in 1918. court was $482,600 in 151S. These | CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS One hundred fifty-two new mnames ’ plants !urlvxed out product worlh ap- NORWICH SERVICE STATION have been added.to our membership . . . ! proximat 3, 0. a y The summary of the business of the two counties will be found | °~*™ately $2650.000. The headquarters and facllities of the! 17 twenty-two members have been . . ol e . e T Norwich Ckamber of Commerce are a ' residence and death, " on page eight, section one of this issue of the Bulletin.{PUTNAM MANUFACTURING genéral service statibn for-the com-| Prominent speakers hive - beem ' : £5 :AS Bx'Gv BUSY YEAR.|munity. Several thousand visitors EroRini th e Bty otifioawich DAy g nam’s big mills which are the s 3 _resident are | fluence and inspire the community. k I backbone of-the manufacturing - life | Lol Tésideat and mon-resident are | T UG Ner 000 g been ratsed BIGGEST BUSINESS YEAR the year. However, the other con-|OL the city and vicinity were big con-handled annually. They are given i . tno improvement of the Military IN NORWICH INDUSTRIES cerns making firearms and cutlery all | (TiPUtors to the prosperity of that [such information as they may scek | Highway at Gales Terry, and, through 3 > : show bigger business than the yeaflst“cuon of the state in the past year,|and accorded the most couricous ' our encouragement, new indus Norwich saw in 1919 pefore. Approximately 29 people all showing bigger business: and |treatment. This spealis well for the tries have loeated in Norw.ch during ear that it has ever eX- were given employment in tHese Imes'lzrefilvr pavroll accounts than in 1918.| husiness men of Norwich who main- | the past year. paid to ap- Juring the year and the wage dds-|Lhe appre tain such an institution. In add tion! We have also lent our operation ¢ workers in its mills Irur ement was $1,149,131 where it | Ment in 181ty personal calls, thousands of letters and support to such activities as the its and in val- 200 in 1918 while product |0 $1.7§3.00 are answered, gving information ‘Red Cross, Vietors J oan, Tubercul e 65 indus- 769.600 where it was|'Whi'e the value of {about our cii These, s Campaign. Salvation Aray Cam-; . - haforh: rose from $8625000 to $13,- | would have to be answered b; paign, Welcome Home to the Boys Re- rolls of these concerns twenty manufactur- | . tour leading business mien, who, in the:turning from Service ew I.ondon | the past where | {0 iants, and In the cotton mills where the wages | County Farm Bureau the War Camp 63,583 in t ribe- SEblan g .mp"w {paid were $410.000 there Was an Community Center -and National | 1d value of prodilct vose from ghowed & lare | erea i Roque Association. 100,600. The total rolle bf €1 165 000 oz of before and the product nee bhas been given to® mer- ! n 1919 was 379 in 1918 payrolis and § vas $3.110.000 where it was $2,210,000 manufacturers and citizens 0 in "t valun s heainst $5355000 im|in 1818 Woolen mills which naid out s S pitaENON) 50 Ak g [$764.000 in wages in 1918 showed . The Chamber has secured the ¢oop- | " product, ] S j 3650,080 1n msw creasinz their nrod- cration of a Brockton company in e: in the cotton mills where % u Tom 9 to §3.815,000. ablishi ing_ bu o CREST OF BIG BUSINESS e e wore another L] SR reased irom IN NEW LONDON PLANTS! v where the i i ! fi'es have been installed in the Cham- and i+ New ‘London’s manufacturing plants|\mPOrtant, the wages ! ber offices. ] at the crest of big volume of |$136.000 to $171000 Salue of ! v was ropresentéd by the s showeq payrolls I ess in 1919 that sent the wage |Procuct. from $i.4 000 to $2.200,400. | Chamber at Webster Lake on Mohe-»i 00 as aga:nst $603 000 'the | disbursement for the above |In the miscellaneous industries h-é' ~an Trail Day and at the ovening of I production {anything that had been known before | WVage distribution was $504.000 in wing product of $7 ‘re the figure, ease trom 35 nd fr in value of prod: n work, payroll showing n .‘1“ having payrollg of $153,.- duct value spectively the vear before. o manufacturing, smaller figures to record of the Marli on factory for s employing ¥1‘9.1§. X as e preced- ! out in ‘W inz plan In the. {the city, i paid out the uct. 220. of $246.500 { before employ- larger fig- [to $1.071 £ $430,000. | urer: firearms there are due to the -Roclwell months of ers. and the vear In the in that. éity $8.504.260. which went mtu the hands .and pockets of about { bursement was $6.9%0 ! Machinery -and marine wor } Iargest employing line of indusfry in| ompared es $131.000, and turned out uct reached a to: | the vear, which neariv doubled their figure of approximately in contrast to $365.000 in 1018 and tha ¢ product WAS, The total amount paid 58 $3 900,000 and ages by some 50 manufactur- ts, “large and small, was ' WILLIMAMTIC INDUSTR EXPERIENCE BU v, high figures were, rrtmtir's manufacturing st year when total 4.600 ir before the total wase d . !hO‘ having about 3.100 omplo £4.784,000 in wages in mml 34 i as 23 7 cver 1918, Th-‘ total value of mqnum.mrm pro- duct $15,011,039. In the cotton mills pald out wer 399, product value w: of the city wages | in proximate total the year 316 $325,000 I = and the large boosting the na paid out $43) 000 5 2,175 people. had wage d of $1.380,000 in contrast 00 in 1918, while their prod- al of $7.445,000. Man s of metal and iron 800 busin ners in employing about work - paving wages of $1:052,000 { in 000 lued at | pub lued at $1,533,316 wages, { out _produr paid $339.0° and | ‘ in this | wages T 067 and the pro- lt-he j duct amounted o $630.743. an increase | in before. Their nroduct $2,692.000. S In a group of other varied in- woolen industry employing | dustries the wage gccount put ours. FRANK J. President and ty. They ’a.b;om‘e of the Chamber.swould be the ! < com- | recipients of such mail. nd the ! quarters are used const: > c private 8114000 while 1T ¢ colton mills turned | | Chamber fs; truly, 2 communi pact. Ve finished this, the fourih year of | ]‘\:l foundry lines the | Chamber of Commerce activi largest membersip on record and, ’phshed much good for the members. addition, a record was ! of $37,680 in the wages account in zhe]mems worthy of an organization 1 Some mistakes have Leen made and we may not have accomplished as \the new hr'dge at New London: in ad | "dition delegates Were sent to Lhe | State O mbe,r,gn;i “the New Engiand Association mercial ‘B ecutives. Commltleeg orking on housing “pnditions ard planning for a new in- ¢ dustrial building . Progress is being made by, the committee on t*e Tnspec- i tion of Electrir Wirine, a~d also the comimittee on Increased Tire Protce- | ion. The Chawher has gone on record as | favoring a War Memorial to the Boys ! Return'ng from Service, and has lent its assistance in publicizing this im- portant sentiment: has sent speocial communications to our senators and congressman in regard to daylight ving. return of the telegraph lines to private ownership and other mat- ters: encouraged members to support relisious -and fraternal or~anizat’ons of the citv and placed the Chamber in ifull svmpathy with their forward | movements. The Merehants’ Bureau and the Manufacturers’ Bureau have met in the “hamber of Commerce rooms reg- ularly each month and have accom- KING The head- of accomplish- |~ We have cooperateq with the State €| Chamber of Commerce in an attempt (Continued on Page Three) ‘on ‘Wednesday Nov. Inub!ic use the ‘highway county $135,729.28. About half of the state’s highway department expenditures on New London county were in changing the Thames River Bridge over for highway uses, this calling for $450,000. \ WINDHAM COUNTY. HIGHWAY WORK NEW YEARS. ‘ |MEW LONDON COUNTY. Expenditures of $91,439.44 in Wind- ham county have included a number of projects that will materially im- prove highways there, In the town of Plainfield work is still under way on ithe Canterbury road where 4,625 feet of screened gravel road has been laid at a cost of $10,685, while the West- minster road in C: n\f'rl)ul is still TFormal exercises conducted at noon 5, by the officials of New London and Groton opened to bridge over | the Thames: river on which the state highway department had been at work for about a year in changing it over l“(ofl;plew It me can- ek i XreSan e ction, ng already Pi rdimend. to;highiean moc spent on’ the stretch of 3,185 feet called for in grading lay of the bridge, cl laying the roadways foot trat This bridge, eredted ori- ginally at a cost of $1,000,000 by the New Haven railroad, had served the roag ‘for man: , but with the in- L‘l(‘as.h" \\El"ht of Ixa‘n and locomo- an expenditure of $430,000 the approaches and vs at both ends Jn the Killingly and Putnam of the county, the Goodyear r the town of Killingly hds had 7, lam laid at a 6 44097 and Grove street in in not yet up a concrete A s of pended on 3,837 feet, omo | feet on the A ngton road i the town s 1 cost.of which erected o new vieve of woik as vof v hundred feet further | ny pg completed is the Brandy gown the river and turned over the 0ld | i road in the town of Thompson, bridge to the state for highway Pur- 15410 feet of pos 1t a ‘cost date of § b e On the, shore road in the town of forg, ({ Phoenixy —nad has Groton 13,875 f ex 1 Jadd in gravel at a cost -of been laid at a cost of $100. 3 6.992.63 ard and Groton the comple TOLLAND COUNT‘/ of the eas 3 d Wolland county - completed b: mayadam at a cost of $18 piece of l)r'uflq work “has been done in Ledyard by'the widening of the bridee at Breakwater, which cost | D3 $1,449.683. 15 Aoross - Higy river in ‘the town of ontville an appreciated lm\)m‘v‘e‘m!’nt has .been lm\'de«on the - Chesterfied tention give nent there has been in the There Most of Of Mansfield, the eompletion of the 'S rings road, 38.514. lo feei of ‘screened xravnl at a cost of $123,975.69;"the King hill et ‘of macadam|road was zraded for 800 feet at a 3’-5: 1:%&; ; c’f;?t 5 $22,320,98. fcost of $1031.52, and the Warrenville In the trunk line system of the state {road had 9,000 feet of screened the improvement of the Norwich to gravel d at a cost of % Westerly road has been begun. an im- §cror¥xed>gravel was also the portant stretch of road that when | construction for 512 feet of at the South Coventry costing $1.162.24, ad offet a fine highwaj fitirond siathe to the Rhole Is shore, This - extends through towns of Preston. Ledyard. Stoning- fon and North Stonington. The part of. the work that -has already been done has called for the expenditure of 3 feat of bituminous i completed will from Norwich Avon. W. Mo ceived appointment enumerator for n has re- census the town of Avon. Nervous People should use KALPHO and observe its mag- ical effect in the treatment of nervous- ness, insomma, brain fag, irritability, mental exhaustion, nervous headache, loss of memory, etc. KALPHO acts on the bran, nerves,musclesand blood cells; rebuilds wornout nerve tissues and is in- dispensable to all mental workers Con- tains no harmfu} nor habitforming drugs. At druggists $1.00. Refuse substitutes, KALPHO is sold by the Lee & Os~ i®ood Co. macadam 1 Bozrah street in u-m lov\u “of Cozr.)h has been improved by laying 800 Poet of macadam at a cost of $ bat this work has not been completed Yo ompletion of the Taftville bridge on the Norwich-Lisbon road has been carried through at a cost of $44,32551 and the Newent road in the town of Tisbon has had 4.770feetof macadam laid at a cost of $12,000 with more work to be done before the road is completed 3 Why Not Deposit $2 a Week? In 5 Years Amount Will Be $575.08 THE CHELSEA SAVINGS BAN NORWICH, CONN. FRANK HEMPSTEAD, Treasares. P $1.00 Will Open An Account Here. Two Name Accounts Also Opened. We Care For Liberty Bonds Free of Expense. Divi- dends Made Have Never Been Below 49,. FRANKLIN SQUARE BANKING HOURS: Business Days, 9 A.M.to 3 P. M. Except Sunday Saturday,9 A.M.to12M. and6:30to 8 P.M. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President. JAMES DANA COIT, Assistant Trossurer